Testing the wordpress iPhone app

Like a large number of bigger companies out there I’m offically dropping support for IE6.  It has been replaced by 2 generations of IE: 7 and 8.  Not to mention the numerous other alternatives out there such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc.  Companies like Google, FaceBook, and Apple all have sites that are currently un-supported in IE6 and tell users they need to upgrade in order to get the full potential of the site.  If a client wants IE6 support it will cost them, as the time and effort in getting a site to work in IE6 and all the other browsers I do support grows at huge rate.  Why?

Lets say I begin development on Windows with Firefox as the target platform.  I get the site coded in CSS and working perfectly.  Load IE7 and it looks completely different.  So now I have to rewrite all the CSS for IE7.  Great, so now both of them are working.  Load up IE6 and it’s even more messed up than IE7 was before.  So that’s another rewrite with IE6 as the target (look into CSS conditionals to see how you can target different browsers).  But I’m not only supporting those browsers, I also support:

- Firefox on Windows

- IE7 on Windows

- Chrome on Windows

- Opera on Windows

- Firefox on Linux

- Konqueror on Linux

- and soon Safari on Mac

and anytime there’s a problem on the other browsers(which is very rarely) I have to spend time tracking down the bug and fixing it for that browser.  On top of IE6’s problems with its rendering engine are the number of security concerns with using a browser of that age.  Instead of dealing with the problem, I’m dropping the problem and letting everyone else fix it… by upgrading to a newer version or downloading Firefox!

The makers of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3… on the Wii??? How are they going to pull that one off.

“We are going to make an announcement on a really big Wii game this year, we’ve got a couple of other things in the pipeline, and it’s a format we’re really looking at with the right approach.” - Sean Brennan from Bethesda

They’ve basically never made a bad game, but they are known for making huge giant games.  How are they going to do that on the Wii?  Maybe it won’t be a massive game, but can they make anything else?  Here’s hoping they can, so my Wii might actually get some use.

Anyone have a Mac Mini capable of running X-Code they want to sell me for cheap cheap?

I’m getting an iPhone next month when the new ones come out and am wanting to start doing iPhone development. I’ve loved games since I was a kid, and it was a lot of fun having a job where you got to make them all day. It will be nice to start doing game development again, and it seems like the iPhone is the platform to be on currently. Though I am talking to a friend about doing an XNA game and pushing it up on to XBox Live Arcade, I think the market is better (read: chance to make more money) on the app store. Even if it is saturated with 15,000 games and applications.

I’m currently using Microsoft’s MGrammar, part of the codename ‘Oslo’ SDK, for a project that is very hush hush. MGrammar is “a language for writing textual, domain-specific languages.” Basically all this means is, instead of a developer using C# to write their code they can create their own programming language that will work in the domain they are in. For example (actually the Microsoft example), if a developer wanted to start writing music on the computer they could do a couple of things.
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My favorite software development writer/blogger, Joel from http://www.joelonsoftware.com/, is having 5 developer conferences throughout the US and London in October. The prices are really good, considering how much other development conferences cost, and the man’s pretty much a software engineering genius. $99 per person for an entire day, with lunch included. w00t w00t!

I’m designing a site for a company and am using WordPress.  While creating a custom template for a specific page I ran across an issue where the <!–more–> tag wasn’t working.  After a quick Google search I came across this page » » Read more

A friend of mine told me about a website not long ago where you can get cheap golf balls, slightly used, but in great condition.  The website is www.lostgolfballs.com.  I will probably never buy brand new balls again, as you can get the AAAAA rated golf balls from the site (they say they are only hit once, usually into water) for around 60% off, and when they have free shipping going on it’s a steal.

Re-designed my site and am using WordPress for my CMS.  First post, w00t!